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869. Bible Study: Ezekiel 45 (Festivals represent the Gospel Message!) · Faith by annm2705

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Chapter 45 from the book of Ezekiel.
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Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through this chapter or
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maybe more and help us to see, to have the insight and notice
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the things that you want to call to our attention.
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We ask this in Jesus name. So it starts out Israel fully
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restored. When you allot the land as an
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inheritance, you are to present to the Lord a portion of the
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land. Actually, I started reading for
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my Bible and I don't want to do that because of the version that
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I have, because this gets into measurements.
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And so I want to read from an online version, Ezekiel 45, and
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I'm going to read from the New Living Translation as Amir had
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suggested in his book. It's nice when you come to the
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Cubit measurements to have it translated for you.
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So I will read there. And then we will reference the
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Study Bible and perhaps the Exploring Ezekiel book by Amir
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also. So let's get started here.
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Division of the Land. When you divide the land among
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the tribes of Israel, you must set aside a section for the Lord
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as His holy portion. This piece of land will be 8 and
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one third miles long and six and 2/3 miles wide.
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The entire area will be holy. That's kind of interesting
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because there are certain sections and the that of the
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Bible that talks about ever since the beginning talks about
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clean and unclean, holy and unholy, and the purification and
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the sanctification process. Ever since the early
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documentation of the Israelites, God has always done that.
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In fact, when he gave the 10 commandments, he gave specific
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instructions that people were not to come and touch the
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mountain or they would die because it was holy.
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We talked about that before with the ark of the covenant.
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The same thing like there are certain holy things that we
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should respect and and they should be separate and remain
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that way. I mean, that's the way the Bible
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tells us anyway. So verse 2A section of this land
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measuring 875 feet by 875 feet will be set aside for the
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temple. OK, so that's interesting. 875
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feet by 875 feet. That's in the cubits.
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It's 500. So it's a square shape.
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An additional strip of 87 1/2 feet wide is to be left empty
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all around it. Within the larger sacred area,
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measure out a portion of the land 8 and a third miles long
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and three and a third miles wide.
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Within it, the sanctuary of the Most Holy Place will be located.
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This area will be holy, set aside for priest who minister to
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the Lord in the sanctuary. They will use it for their homes
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and my temple will be located within it.
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The strip of sacred land next to it, also eight and a third miles
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long and three and a third miles wide, will be a living area for
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the Levites who work at the temple.
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It will be their possession and a place for their towns.
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Adjacent to the larger sacred area will be a section of land 8
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and a third miles long, 1 2/3 miles wide.
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This will be set aside for a city where anyone in Israel can
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live. That's interesting.
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You know, this will be set aside for a city where anyone in
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Israel can live, and it's adjacent to the sacred land.
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OK for seven, two special sections of land will be set
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apart for the Prince. One section will share a border
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with the east side of the sacred lands and city, and the second
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section will share a border on the West side.
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Then the far eastern and far and western borders of the prince's
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land will line up with the eastern and western boundary
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boundaries of the tribal areas. These sections of land will be
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the Princess allotment. Then my Princess will no longer
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oppress and rob my people. They will assign the rest of the
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land to the people, giving an allotment to each tribe.
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So even from the beginning, when they were in camps, they had
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certain areas where the tribe set.
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It was very much very orderly. And someone pointed out that the
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the way that the tribes were set up in the camps when they were,
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I guess, wandering in the wilderness, they were in the
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shape of a cross. And I hadn't picked up on that,
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but a commentator mentioned that, which was kind of
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interesting. And then they would like blow
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trumpets if they were going to go out to the war or they would
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blow trumpets to call people together as an assembly.
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So this is very consistent with the way things had been done
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before. That was very organized.
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And God has a plan. So he's downloading this plan to
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Ezekiel and saying here's what everybody's going to have.
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Now, this reference to the Prince is very interesting.
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And I actually disagree with the study Bible here.
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And I think it might be beneficial to read this, this,
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and maybe more chapters to kind of get the context of who the
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Prince is. Because when I read it, I
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thought, I don't know. Anyway, you'll see.
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OK, rules for Princess. So this is plural.
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OK Ezekiel 45-9 for this is what the Sovereign Lord says.
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Enough you Princess of Israel, stop your violence and
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oppression and do what is just and right.
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Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land.
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Stop expelling them from their homes, says the Sovereign Lord.
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Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both
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dry and liquid. The Homer that's about 40
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gallons will be your standard unit for measuring volume, the
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EFA and the bath that says the EFA is a dry measure, the bath
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is a liquid measure will each measure 110th of a Homer.
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The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel, and
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the shekel weighs about .4 oz or 11 grams.
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One shekel will consist of 20 giras, and 60 shekels will be
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equal to 1 minna. Elsewhere, the minna is equated
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to 50 shekels. Special offerings and
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celebrations. You must give this tax to the
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Prince. One bushel of wheat or barley
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for every 60 you harvest. 1%. Let's see, Hebrew is 1/6 of an
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ephah from each Homer of wheat and 1/6 of an ephah from each
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Homer of barley. So that's where they came up
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with 60. And I haven't done the math to
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double check any of this one. If we did a really deep dive,
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I'm sure there is some significance in all of this, but
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I'm not going to go that deep today.
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One percent, 1% of your olive oil.
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And then it says as a footnote, the Hebrew portion of oil
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measured by the bath is 110th of a bath from each core, which
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consists of 10 baths or one Homer for 10 baths are
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equivalent to a Homer. OK verse 15, and 1 sheep or goat
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for every 200. And your flocks in Israel.
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These will be the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and
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peace offerings that will make atonement for the people who
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bring them, says the sovereign Lord.
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All the people of Israel must join in bringing these offerings
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to the Prince. So again, this is another
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indication of there will be future sacrifices being made and
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and there's something for in regards to atonement.
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And that does get a little bit confusing because these were
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temporary sacrifice that, well, they were temporary atonement
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that God was providing for people, but Jesus is the final
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and forever atonement for people.
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And perhaps this is leading the Israelites to the understanding
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of that. I'm not quite sure why this
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happens, but it, I don't know. I, I'm not really sure.
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I guess someday we'll be able to ask God like, why did you
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implement sacrifices after Jesus had already died for all of us?
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Because that is the question I have.
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OK, so all the people of Israel must join in bringing these
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offerings to the Prince. The Prince will be required to
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provide offerings that are given at the religious festivals, the
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new moon celebrations, the Sabbath days, and all similar
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occasions. He will provide the sin
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offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, liquid
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offerings or drink offerings and peace offerings to purify the
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people of Israel, making them right with the Lord.
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So again, this is interesting. This is what the sovereign Lord
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says in early spring on the first day of each new year.
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Now there there are two different calendars that happen.
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There's like a secular or a civil calendar and in Israel and
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that secular one starts at Rosh Hashanah.
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That's the beginning of the new year.
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But in the Old Testament, the way God established everything
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that the year started in the spring and it was around, you
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know, March, I don't know if it's maybe March 15th or
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something like that, but it was, it was in the springtime and it
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was during our month of March. And that was the, the 1st, that
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was the beginning. And that kind of makes the
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sense, that makes sense the way God did, you know, the way God
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did it. Of course it does.
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Because at springtime things are growing and then, you know, in
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the fall, they kind of go to sleep.
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So that's almost like a progress of, of life.
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But anyway, there are two, they're about six months apart
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from one another. So there are two calendars that
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are happening at the same time. But the biblical first month is
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in the spring. So this is what the sovereign
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verse 18 says. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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says in the in early spring on the first day of each new year.
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I'll read the footnote here. It says Hebrew on the first day
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of the first month of the Hebrew calendar.
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This day, an ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in March
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or April and it had to do with the the moon.
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So I guess when it's actually started.
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So it's in the springtime, though, Sacrifice a young bull
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with no defects to purify the temple.
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So maybe this is what now this, this here says a young bull,
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which is a male, not a heifer. So this is sacrificing a young
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bull with no defects to purify the temple.
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So it's, it almost seems like there is a temple in place.
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I don't know. This is, this is interesting.
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So I'll have to look up sometime what Solomon's Temple's
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measurements were, because are there, as Amir's book said, are
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there 4 temples that come about? Is there a third temple that is
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the smaller size? Maybe it matches what the Temple
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Institute's plans currently have.
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And then this millennial temple is just going to be so much
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larger and more grandeur than what the Temple Institute
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currently has planned. We'll just have to wait and see.
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So the the priest will take the blood from this sin offering and
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put it on the doorpost of the temple.
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Remember, that was very much like the Passover when the blood
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was put on the doorpost of the doors and the peoples first born
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were saved from the Angel of death.
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And that was something that God told the Israelites to do when
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they were in Egypt before he rescued them.
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So this is interesting. It's very symbolic.
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The priest will take the blood from the sin offering and put it
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on the doorpost of the temple, the four corners of the upper
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ledge of the altar, the gatepost at the entrance to the inner
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courtyard. Do this also on the 7th day of
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the new year for anyone who has sinned through error or
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ignorance. Ignorance in this way you will
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purify the temple. One thing that I noticed about
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the sacrifices that these sacrifices were made for errors
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or like it says errors or ignorance.
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It was like you accidentally did something wrong.
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But none of the sin offerings, if you go back to the all of the
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offerings that were in the Old Testament, none of them were for
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intentional sins. Like there wasn't an offering
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that that made-up for that. Now, we do know that God does
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forgive people when they repent and turn away from them.
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So this is also another thing that makes me think about
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Jesus's atonement. We're going to mess up, we're
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going to do stupid things accidentally just because of our
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sinful nature. And now those are the types of
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sins that are forgiven through the blood of Jesus on the cross.
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But there are other sins that we know we're doing wrong and we
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intentionally do it anyway. That's just pure rebellion to
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God. And I don't know that the blood
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of Jesus covers that. There's something in the book of
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Hebrews that talks about that. And I, I feel like I'm just
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getting clarity right now for the first time on this because
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I, I, there's been a lot of disputes, not disputes, but
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discussions with people about, about this, about like obeying
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God and legalism and Jesus's death on the cross.
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And, and I think a lot of people are confused about this.
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But if you look closely at Scripture and like I said, I'm
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just this is like coming clear to me right now is about it says
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if we deliberately keep on sinning, something to this
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effect in the book of Hebrews, I'd need to look that up.
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But it says that there is no sacrifice remaining, but only
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the fearful expectation of the wrath of God or something to
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that effect. So I want to look that up
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because I don't want to misquote it and I I paraphrase
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deliberate. All right, I guess keep on
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sinning is what I can find it as and see if I can find that
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verse. OK, it's Hebrews 10/26.
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It says if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have
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received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is
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left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of
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raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
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So I, I think that's, you know, the fear of the Lord is the
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beginning of wisdom. So I think that's something that
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people, you know, they certainly don't talk about that in church,
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in many churches it's anyway, but I think that's a little bit
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concerning to me. All right, let's go back to
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where we were reading on the verse 21 in chapter 45.
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On the 14th day of the first month, you must celebrate the
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Passover. This festival will last for
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seven days. The bread you eat during that
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time must be made without yeast. Now without yeast, yeast was
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symbolic of sin. And so unleavened bread is is
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like the bread for some reason, I don't know why yeast was
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representative or symbolic of sin and so that's why there was
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unleavened bread. But also because when they fled
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from Egypt, they didn't have time to let the bread rise.
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And so it was unrisen bread that they used during that time.
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So there's, there's a lot of literal and symbolic meaning as
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we find throughout the Bible that these are literal events.
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And I was noticing the other day and I wrote these down and I
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couldn't find the paper that I wrote it on.
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But I there are three different festivals that God gave an
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ordinance that they should always do.
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And one of them was the Festival of Unleavened Breads.
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That's being talked about right here for the seven days.
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Then next there was the Festival of the Weeks, our first fruits
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or shabu oat. And then the third was the
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Festival of Tabernacles. And what I was when I was
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looking at those, I realized that those together represent
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the gospel message. This was so wild.
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I mean, I wish I would have written it all down.
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But and I, I will try to say like what I I found so #1 the
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Passover that is pointing us to Jesus.
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So the people were in Egypt. Egypt is representative.
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I mean, these are literal events, but also symbolic.
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So Egypt is symbolic of idolatry.
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They have a lot of different gods that they worship.
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And anyway they separate, that separates us from God idolatry.
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I mean, that's like one of the first commandments that God gave
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to worship the your, the one true God.
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And so that's what Egypt did and is also symbolic of.
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And all people who are, if you want to call us enemies of God
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before we, our eyes are opened, we're all sinners.
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We are all doing things against the one true God because our all
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mankind was corrupted. We are all sinful.
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The Bible clearly says that that every single person is a Sinner.
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There is no one good but God, so everyone's a Sinner.
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We are basically imprisoned into sin.
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Like we are captured, we don't even know it.
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We are manipulated by sin. We are trapped by sin.
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We are in slavery to sin. Just like the Israelites were
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enslaved in Egypt by other, you know, like if Egypt represents
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other gods, we are also in slavery to other gods that are
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not gods. And I think to take it a little
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step further, but this is only a theory, it's not proven.
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I think those other gods are actually fallen angels who
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wanted to be gods. And so they deceptively
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presented themselves as something like that to people
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and made people believe that they were God.
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So again, that's a theory, but it it's very probable from what
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is written in the Bible and what is written in the book of Enoch
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2. So people are held captive by
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sin. They are lured in by seducing
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spirits. By I mean there's worshipping by
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power, by wealth, by sexual immorality, all of these things
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that we don't even realize because it's so common in our
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culture. And we don't even think any of
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this stuff is bad when we are not connected with God.
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We look at this as this is just normal.
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This is the way people are. And all those Christians are
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kind of the weird ones until our eyes are opened.
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So at that point we are in slavery.
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We don't get it. We don't understand it because
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our eyes have not been open to God.
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We don't know God. We may know of him, but we don't
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know him. We don't know the love of God.
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We don't know the compassion that He has on us and how
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desperately He wants us to love Him back and bring us into His
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Kingdom and give us an inheritance that He has planned
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since the beginning for those who who do turn to Him.
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So anyway, we're in slavery just like the Israelites were in
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Egypt. And no, they didn't know what
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they were getting their food and all the things they needed.
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They didn't even, I mean, they knew they were in slavery, but
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even when they escaped from slavery, they were, they were
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saying, oh, if we could just have the like these different
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foods that we had back then. But now here we are in the
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desert and it's just there's this transition where there is a
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longing for things of the past, for their slavery, their sinful
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state. But they are in during this 40
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days, which I believe is a testing period.
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And they're wandering around and each of us kind of goes through
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our own 40 days of testing. It's not really 40 days, but a
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period of time that is a testing period that God gives us when
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we're transitioning from our sinful orientation to coming on
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board with what God says is good.
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So anyway, in the Passover, the very first feast or festival
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that God has put in, the laws in Leviticus that you're supposed
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to celebrate these certain feasts, Passover was
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representative of Jesus death on the cross.
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Because just as we talked about a few moments ago, where the
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blood was placed on the doorpost, the frame of the door,
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that's what the Israelites were told to do so that when the
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Angel of death came by, their first born would not die.
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That was one of the plagues that God sent the Angel of death to
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kill all the first born and only the ones who were quote covered
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by the blood of the Lamb. The Lamb is symbolic of Jesus.
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Those were the only ones who survived, the only first borns
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who survived. So that again is symbolic of
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Jesus. Anyone who puts their faith and
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trust in Jesus will be spared death.
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The Angel of death was coming. We will be spared death when we
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put our faith and trust in Jesus in the blood of the lamb, in the
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blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross for us when we put our
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faith in that and that what what God did.
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So that's Passover. Then we have the next thing.
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This is like I'm saying the Gospel message like we are
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sinners, Christ came and died for us.
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So that's represented represented in Passover.
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The next thing is the the Feast of weeks or the Festival of
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Weeks, which are seven weeks of time.
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It's also called first fruits, and then it's also called
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Shavuot. And the last day of that period
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is the day #50 So it's also called Pentecost.
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Now all of those things. So it, it goes from in Passover
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starts with the feast, the, the, the barley harvest.
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And then when you get to the festival of weeks or the feast
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of weeks, at the end is the wheat harvest.
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It's kind of interesting that Jesus told a parable about the
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wheat and the tares growing together and let them grow
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together and don't pull out the tares or the weeds from the
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wheat. They look the same while they're
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growing. But when the angels come there,
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there will be a difference. The, the weeds are the evil ones
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will be bound up and put together for burning in the
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fire. And then the, the the wheat will
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be stored in the barn. I believe that's also
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representative of Jesus's, of Jesus's.
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Oh, shoot, just a moment please. I'm actually getting a call
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actually. OK, so Jesus's.
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I don't remember where I was now, so distracted.
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Sorry about that. OK, we're talking about the
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festival of weeks, the barley harvest.
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When Jesus comes and gathers his people, the angels gather his
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people, and I believe that those who have prepared themselves
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will be protected in a in a place prior to the wrath of God
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coming upon all people on the earth.
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And anyway, I'm going to pause right here for a minute just in
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case that call was an emergency. OK, let's get back to where we
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left off. Sorry about that.
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All right then. This was the second festival,
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Shavuot, which on Pentecost is when the Holy Spirit came.
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So think about these festivals. We have Passover that
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represents, you know, our sin, Jesus's atonement for our sin,
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then the Holy Spirit, the receiving of the Holy Spirit,
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and then the remaining to be fulfilled.
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Feast is the festival of tabernacles.
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And what's really interesting, this is called Sukkot, and this
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is where Israel currently puts up temporary structures.
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And it's a also a seven day period.
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So there's so much symbology in all three of these.
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The fest, the Feast of Tabernacles will be celebrated
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in the Millennium period. That's the one feast that
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remains that people will go. It's a joyous celebration.
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And this is a fall feast and it's a gathering.
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It's like the final harvest. And that is symbolic of the
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final harvest of people into probably the millennial Kingdom
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that where Christ reigns. So we have sin, then Jesus dying
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on the cross, then we have the Holy Spirit.
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And Jesus said you must be born again, born of the Spirit in
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order to enter the Kingdom of God.
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So the Holy Spirit comes. And then also when Jesus
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returns, remember he says about Israelite, the Israelites, He
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said, I will pour out on my spirit.
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I will pour out my spirit in those days, and I will give the
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people of Israel a heart of flesh and turn their heart of
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stone to a heart of flesh will that will be open to receiving
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the Spirit of God and then the best.
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The Feast of Tabernacles is the festival or the celebration.
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It's all complete. All of God's children are
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gathering together. And so it, if you look at the
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symbolism in what was given to the Israelites at the very
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beginning was the complete gospel message, although they
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didn't understand it. But now they'll probably look
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back on it and realize that this was the gospel message.
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And then the other thing is the #7 how significant it is.
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So Passover is or the Festival of Unleavened Bread, Passover
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starts it and then it's seven weeks and or not seven weeks,
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I'm sorry, seven days. So that's the number 7.
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Then you get the festival of weeks, which is 7 weeks.
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Then you get the festival of the Feast of Tabernacle Tabernacles,
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which is 7 days long, a celebration.
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And the number 7 is associated with God.
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The number 7 is associated with the days of creation.
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And you know that God rested on his last day of creation.
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And there are like 6 days that I think are allocated to mankind
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or 6000 years that are allocated to mankind.
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And then in the 7th year, that's a somewhat of a day of rest.
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There's going to be some big things happening during the
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time, that 7th year or that period of that from 6000 to 7000
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where Jesus reigns on the earth and it's going to be a day of
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rest because there's actually going to be peace on earth when
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Jesus returns. He's going to be restoring our
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land. It's just so amazing, like God,
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how God put all this together and it's been, you know, there's
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been a veil over our eyes where we don't see it, but all of a
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sudden we become enlightened by it and we see what God is doing
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and the promises that he has. So I just think this is so cool
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that to to recognize these things that God has done.
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So anyway, I'm going to get back to I forgot where I was, sorry.
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This is a pretty bad podcast as far as organization, lots of
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interruptions. So all right, let's start here,
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I guess at verse 21 and chapter 45.
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On the 14th day of the first month, you must celebrate
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Passover. This festival will last for
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seven days. The bread you eat during that
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time must be made without yeast. That's interesting.
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I just thought about this when I read this.
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So the bread, a lot of times the bread is like our nourishment.
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Jesus is also called the bread of life.
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And so the bread you eat, what we consume during this time must
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be made, must be made without yeast, made without sin.
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So there is this purification that God is getting the sin out
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of our life. That's what the Holy Spirit will
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begin to do to us when we accept the Holy Spirit, when we
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willingly say I want the Holy Spirit.
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And then Jesus will give us the Holy Spirit.
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And the Holy Spirit will begin to sanctify us, to change us, to
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make us what I think is the way God originally designed us for.
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But we don't, you know, we're so rebellious and we don't know
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what we were designed for. We don't know our purpose.
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But then the Holy Spirit will reveal our purpose.
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And anyway, it's just a beautiful thing that God does
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for us. So on verse 20, verse 22, on the
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day of Passover, the Prince will provide a young bull as a sin
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offering for himself and the people of Israel.
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Now my study Bible says that talks about the Prince being
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Jesus or the Messiah. I do not believe this because of
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this verse 22 where it says on the day of Passover the Prince
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will provide a young bull as a sin offering for himself and the
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people of Israel. So Jesus doesn't need a bull
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sacrificed for himself. The Messiah doesn't need a bull
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sacrificed for himself. So this is another Prince and
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there is some speculation and I think Amir thinks it also, but I
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thought it separately before I read Amir's book.
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I think it might be King David. So when Jesus returns, prior to
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his return, when he gathers people, I don't know if David's
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already been resurrected because when Jesus died on the cross,
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one of the Gospels said that graves were opened and there
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were people that walked around the city of Jerusalem.
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But it doesn't say anything more about it, which I find very
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questionable. Like, why didn't no one say like
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what happened to those people that came up out of the grave
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and walked around Jerusalem? I there was nothing, you know,
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like if you put that in the Bible, like, why wouldn't you
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say, well, they either went back into the graves or they
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disappeared or they rose up to the sky.
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I don't know what happened to them.
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The Bible doesn't say, but you know, was that just a preview of
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what was to come? Did some people get resurrected?
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Was maybe David in that group? Was that part of the first
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fruits? Those are all questions that I
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have. I don't have the answers and the
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Bible doesn't have the answers. As far as I've seen so far, I
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haven't found those answers. But we do know that when Jesus
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returns our one, he gathers his people.
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It says the dead in Christ will rise first and then after that,
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all of those who have prepared themselves who are still alive
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at the time that Jesus returns will be gathered up to him.
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So those people who are still alive, they're not going to
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experience a death. They're going to be like a like,
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I guess like Elijah, you know, I think Enoch was another person
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who didn't experience death. So I think it was Enoch and
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anyway from Genesis, but but there are a few people who
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didn't experience death that were just gathered to Jesus.
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And so that I think also is going to happen in the end
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because there will be some people that are living at that
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time. So anyway, the people that the
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dead in Christ that rise up, those are, you know, the we are
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made righteous by our faith. And there is evidence of Jesus
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all the way in the Old Testament because a lot of people say,
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well, Jesus wasn't around here at that time of the Old
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Testament. So what happens to all those
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people who died during the Old Testament?
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I believe Jesus was, in fact, I think Jesus actually visited
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with two angels when Abram was told that he was going to have a
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son and Abraham and Sarah. And so I think, you know, there
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were, and also in the burning Bush, the conversation between
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Moses and the person that was in the burning Bush.
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I think it may have been Jesus. So there are different
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interactions in the Bible that really make you question was
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that just because of the conversation that occurred if
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that was actually Jesus's presence?
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We know that Jesus was present with the Father at the time of
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creation. There was the Father, Son, and
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Holy Spirit that were all present.
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And if you look carefully at Scripture, the Hebrew word
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elohim was used, which is plural for God.
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So they are united in one spirit.
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And that's the probably the great mystery, but that it's, I
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don't know, it's it's as much of A mystery.
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I think I somewhat understand it now is that there is this one in
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spirit that happens, this blending.
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Not, I don't know, blending is not the right word, but the
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whole when the Holy Spirit comes to us, we become one in Christ.
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And that's what Christ prayed for to the Father.
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He said make them one is we are one and then Christ also says,
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you know, that he would be in US and we you know, there would be
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this like union and it's very much like what God says about a
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marriage where the 2 become one flesh.
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There is this oneness that occurs, and I'm just looking to
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Scripture that describes this. And someday there's going to be
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this like wonderful relationship between God and humans.
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And when we've been perfected, as Paul says, when Jesus
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returns, we will be given incorruptible bodies.
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So we will be changed in an instant, and so we will be made
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ready for the presence of God because as we have seen
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throughout Scripture that things need to be holy to be in God's
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presence or they will be burned up.
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And I think that's probably why things get burned up through
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God's wrath, because unholiness cannot be in the presence of
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God. And a lot of the rules that God
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gave us were protection so that we didn't die.
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I mean, he was always warning people about it, about his
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presence or he would make an area safe and would give, you
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know, this is what you have to do to be safe, to be in his
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presence. And we see from the Old
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Testament that many people were fearful when they saw God
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because they're like, I think it was Isaiah that said, oh, I'm a
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man of unclean lips. You know, I can't be in the
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presence of God. But then he was purified by a
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coal, something burning. And and that's like God testing
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us too, like we go through. Tests and trials here on earth,
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but that is for the purpose of purification, that God is let
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allowing some of these things happen to purify us and we just
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trust in God that God is going to make us whole in the end and
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he's going to restore everything because God is a good God and
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he's a God of love and there's a great promise, a great reward in
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the end. We just have to get through the
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testing period. So hope that wasn't too
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confusing, but now I'm going to get back to Scripture again.
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So verse 23, on each of the seven days of the feast, he will
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prepare a burnt offering to the Lord consisting of seven young
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bulls and seven Rams without defects.
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A male goat will also be given each day for a sin offering.
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The Prince will provide a basket of flour as a grain offering and
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a gallon of olive oil with each young bull and ram during the
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seven days of the Festival of Shelters or Tabernacles, which
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occurs every year in early autumn.
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The Prince will provide these same sacrifices for the sin
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offering, the burnt offering and the grain offering along with
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the required olive oil. So this is in the Millennium
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period. There's going to be these
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sacrifices that will be continuing and it says for the
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atonement, and I don't fully understand that right now, but
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it is clear in Scripture that this is going to happen.
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So I believe the word of God and I believe this will happen.
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So anyway, I'm going to wrap this up.
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This is kind of been another long 1 and it wasn't as well
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organized as I'd hoped it would be, but I apologize for that.
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